Sweet Sixteen Princess Read Free

freshman Algebra class and gave to me. Whichever fits better.
    Besides, Michael doesn’t have time to be bidding on eBay. He needs to spend what little free time he has with me.
    Okay, I have to put a kibosh on the gift thing. It’s got to be really hard on Michael, figuring out what to get for a girl who can basically get anything she wants from her palace. He’s just a poor, hardworking student. It’s just not fair to him. Or any boy who might happen to be dating a princess.
    F T L OUIE : I have an idea. Let’s make a rule: From now on, we can only give each other presents we’ve MADE.
    S KINNER B X : Are you serious?
    F T L OUIE : Serious as L. Ron Hubbard was that we’re all descended from aliens.
    S KINNER B X : Okay. You’re on.
    W OMYN R ULE : POG, are you online with my brother again?
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    Crud. It’s Lilly.
    F T L OUIE : Yes. What do you want?
    W OMYN R ULE : Just to remind you that SHE FLEW IN ON A HELICOPTER.
    F T L OUIE : I have flown into tons of things in a helicopter.
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    Although this is not strictly true. I have only been on a helicopter once, when there was an accident on the FDR and there was no other way to get to the private jet parked at Teterboro.
    But I know what Lilly is getting at, and I’m trying to nip it in the bud.
    I LUVROMANCE : Mia, you HAVE to have a party. You HAVE to. I know you’re upset about what happened at your birthday party last year.
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    Oh, great! Now Tina’s getting in on it, too?
    F T L OUIE : Gang up on me, why don’t you, everybody.
    I LUVROMANCE : Lilly PROMISES what happened last year at your party won’t happen this year. We won’t play Seven Minutes in Heaven. We are way more mature than that now.
    W OMYN R ULE : And besides, I’m with J. P. now.
    F T L OUIE : You were with Boris then. But it still happened.
    W OMYN R ULE : But things with Boris were so boring. I mean, where could it go?
    I LUVROMANCE : Um. Ahem.
    W OMYN R ULE : Sorry. I’m sure things with you and Boris are totally different.
    I LUVROMANCE : Dang straight.
    W OMYN R ULE : But you know what I mean. Things with J. P. are still so…well…you know.
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    Did we ever. Because Lilly can talk of hardly anything else. I had never seen her so besotted for a guy. I suppose because J. P. keeps her guessing as to what his real feelings for her are. It seems like all I ever hear from her these days—when she isn’t going on about her hatred for Andy Milonakis—is Do you think he likes me? I mean, we go out, and stuff, and we kiss, but he doesn’t say stuff, you know, about how he feels about me. Do you think that’s weird? I mean, what kind of guy doesn’t talk about his feelings? Well, okay, I know MOST guys don’t talk about their feelings. But I mean, what guy who goes to AEHS doesn’t want to talk about his feelings? Who isn’t gay, I mean?
    As if I’m supposed to know.
    I LUVROMANCE : Has he still not said the L word, Lilly?
    W OMYN R ULE : He hasn’t even said the G word. As in, that I’m his girlfriend.
    F T L OUIE : Have YOU said the L word to HIM? Or the B word?
    W OMYN R ULE : Of COURSE not. We’ve only been going out for a little over a month. I don’t want to scare him off.
    F T L OUIE : Faint heart never won fair lady.
    W OMYN R ULE : Stop quoting Gilbert and Sullivan at me. I want him to say the L word first. Is that such a crime? WHY WON’T HE SAY IT????
    I LUVROMANCE : Well, you know J. P. has always been something of a loner. He probably just doesn’t know how to act around girls.
    W OMYN R ULE : Do you really think so?
    F T L OUIE : Totally. Oh my God, you guys, check it out: J. P.’s like the Beast from Beauty and the Beast , you know, when Belle first comes to live in the palace, and the Beast is all mean to her? Because, just like the Beast was alone in his castle for all those years, J. P. sat by himself at a lunch table for a really long time, so